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«In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.»
«A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably»
«If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.»
«In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.»
Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Painter) | About: Painting | Keywords: knocks, reasonably
«It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do»
Author: Richard Whately | Keywords: reasonably
«In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.»
«A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, / prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, ''A woman's function plainly is... to talk'.' Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!»
«Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much»
«I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.»
«For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.»